Arguing for the right to vote on Election Day in federal court was an invigorating experience—worth the all nighters—and now our case will proceed to final judgment so all eligible Ohio voters can vote in future elections.

Americans are hungry for a democracy that is more transparent, accessible, and accountable, and there are indications that the next Congress will seriously consider legislation designed to improve our democracy.

This summary highlights CLC’s work to protect voting rights during the 2018 Election. It involved both emergency litigation in several states and successful advocacy outside the courtroom. Our work did not end on Election Day, however; these cases will be ongoing and will determine the extent of protection for the right to vote in 2020 and beyond.

In the 2018 midterms, Americans overwhelmingly voted to support measures to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, improve the way we fund elections to give every day voters a voice in the political process, expand voting access and move toward a more ethical and accountable government.

Today, CLC filed a Motion to Affirm with the U.S. Supreme Court in this case. The filing asked the court to affirm the lower court’s ruling that found the entire state’s plan to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. CLC, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and University of Chicago Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos represent the plaintiffs in the case.

North Dakota’s voter ID law requires that voters’ identification include their current residential street address in order to cast a regular ballot. The use of residential address requirement negatively impacts the ability of Native Americans living in reservation in North Dakota to exercise their...

CLC challenged Arizona’s system of rejecting mail-in ballots because election officials were not “satisfied” that the signature on the ballot matches voter registration signatures. The state was ordered to give voters a chance to fix it.

The Maricopa County Superior Court, upon agreement of the parties, ordered all county recorders statewide to permit voters to “cure” their signature mismatch issue by the deadline to fix conditional provisional ballots next week: Wednesday, November 15.